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Colon Hydrotherapy
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What is Colon Hydrotherapy? |
A
hydrotherapy treatment gently cleans the colon by
filling and emptying it with warm and cool water.
A client lies relaxed on a table, which is connected to
the hydrotherapy equipment. During the procedure,
which usually lasts from 45 minutes to one hour, a colon
therapist massages the abdomen and varies the water
temperature to tone the colon muscles and improve
peristaltic action. |
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What are the Benefits of Colon Hydrotherapy? |
In
addition to toning the colon, hydrotherapy helps to
increase circulation, calms the nervous system, and
brings relief to headaches, food allergies, backaches,
indigestion, colds, and other disorders. Most
important, the body is better able to metabolize good
sources of nutrition. |
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Learning to Listen to Your Body |
While you are in a state of ill health, your body loses
the ability to communicate to you. Most
conventional treatments only address the symptoms of
illness and not the causes. By cleansing your
system with hydrotherapy, you will remove a potential
source of disease and create an environment for health. |
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What
is the difference between Colon Hydrotherapy and an
Enema? |
An
enema merely flushes out the lower end of the colon
where the waste matter (feces) collects. The
average enema uses only about two quarts of water, while
a hydrotherapy treatment uses 15 to 30 gallons of water
to flush out the entire 5 1/2 feet of the colon.
The water is introduced at the rate of one pint to two
quarts at a time, then the fecal matter is expelled.
This action can soften and wash away impactions lining
the colon. |
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Is
Hydrotherapy Treatment Painful? |
No.
After a small tube is inserted into the rectum, a
separate rubber tubing carries the water in and the
wastes out in a lightly pressurized system. Minor,
temporary discomfort may result if the client passes gas
or old waste material or has an extremely congested
colon. Once this matter is eliminated, the client
experiences a feeling of release and renewed vigor.
The colon is on its way to working properly. |
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How
Do I know if I Need a Treatment? |
Almost anyone can benefit from some internal cleansing.
Those of us whose diets have been rich in refined and
devitalized foods are in even greater need of
hydrotherapy. |
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How
Many Treatments Does an Individual Need? |
An
effective cleansing program involves a series of
treatments, combined with a healthy diet, exercise, and
relaxation techniques to detoxify the body and rebuild
and rejuvenate the bowel. Many people feel a big
difference after just one treatment, as old matter is
washed out. But the removal of large amounts of
waste buildup is a gradual process and varies for each
person. Each client's body will change and improve
from treatment to treatment. |
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Is a
Hydrotherapy Treatment Harmful in Any Way? |
No.
Unlike laxatives, which can be habit forming and cause
inflammation of the colon, hydrotherapy is a gentle,
thorough cleansing. Greater harm can result from
not washing out the toxic substances inside the colon. |
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How
Are We Nourished? |
Humans are nourished and maintained not by what we eat,
but by what we digest. The kind and quality of
food put into the body--and how well the body processes
and uses that food--is crucial to every phase of
existence. The body has been compared to a furnace
and food the fuel that stokes it. Most of us think
of any food as adding to that caloric fire. But
nutrition is more complicated than that. We are
not internal combustion machines, but live organisms
made up of some 60 trillion tiny cells. Real
nutrition involves "feeding" those cells, replenishing
them, replacing the ones that have died off, and
speeding the waste out of our bodies before it decays
and becomes toxic. We are sustained even when we
eat foods that don't do this--but our tissue cells are
not regenerated. We age more quickly and are not
as healthy as we might be. In this "twilight zone"
of health, we may suffer from any number of complaints.
We are not seriously ill, but we are not in the best of
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What is the Colon? |
The
physical process of digestion involves the cooperation
of a number of major organs. The chief organ among
them is the colon, or large intestine, which may be one
of the least understood and most neglected organs of the
body. The small and large intestines--with the
help of enzymes from the liver and pancreas--change food
into a form that the body uses for energy and repair.
The final part of the digestive tract, the colon, is
about five feet long and has an average diameter of 2
1/2 inches. It must handle the bulk of the food we
eat. Its lining includes sensitive nerves and
glands that aid in the assimilation of food, especially
vitamins, enzymes, and water.
A healthy colon is essential to a healthy body.
When the colon is working properly, its peristaltic
(muscular, wave-like) motions move food through the
system and eliminate unassimilated substances in the
form of waste within 16 to 24 hours of eating. The
elimination of undigested food and other waste products
is as important as the proper digestion and assimilation
of food. Wastes allowed to remain too long in the
digestive system feed harmful bacteria. White
corpuscles enter the digestive system to fight the
bacteria. Their presence interferes with the
absorption of nutrients from the food we eat. An
internal war ensues, which prevents healthy bacteria
also in the colon from doing their job, thus providing a
breeding ground for sickness and disease. The
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A System in Disrepair
Nature designed the colon
with an efficient system for elmination.
Unfortunately, for most of us, nature's design has been
disturbed. A lifetime of poor eating habits,
insufficient exercise, and emotional and physical
stresses cause the system to degenerate. Toxic
waste accumulates within the 60,000 miles of blood
vessels, lymph glands, joints, and cells. But the
greatest amount is found in the linings of the colon.
Approximately 5 to 15 pounds of waste is in the average
adult American.
The presence of toxins can cause constipation, diarrhea,
lack of energy, and other ailments. Toxins
interfere with the lymphatic system's ability to cleanse
and, therefore, affects the condition of every cell and
organ in the body. When the material collected in
the colon becomes toxic, it passes into the blood stream
as a poison.
Many of us are constipated without realizing it.
You may have a bowel movement every day and still have a
colon packed with accumulated waste. The effects
of this degeneration can be immediate - as with the
onset of headaches, colds, skin problems, fatigue,
indigestion, allergies or in the case of more serious
conditions may take many years to develop.
Your Colon and What You Eat
To work at its full potential, our system needs
clean-burning foods that do not clog the colon.
This means a diet rich in raw fruits and vegetables,
grains, sprouts, and nuts, slowly eaten in the proper
combinations. Raw foods act as a magnet, and
"intestinal broom," to help keep waste matter moving
along the intestinal tract.
Do
You Experience
Any of the Following Regularly?
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